Word: vesting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their laughs on cue. (Some of the dialogue, considered too risque, was altered: e.g., Annie's line, "If you hadna' done it, I'd a shot yew right in the belly button," became "I would have shot over my shoulder and knocked the button off your vest.") Viennese brought up on the beefy Volksoper chorus were especially delighted by Prawy's slimmed-down chorus line. At the end, the audience cheered...
...portrayed by Actor O'Brian, 31, onetime Marine drill instructor, Wyatt Earp now rides herd on the youngsters, makes them eat their cereal (Cheerios) and brush their teeth (with Gleem). His impeccable dress-frock coat, striped pants, silk vest, black sombrero-is a good example for the junior blue-jeans set ("Mothers love me"). Western buffs approve of his resemblance to the real Earp (though he omits the handlebar mustache) and his ability to handle such firearms as Earp's long-barreled Buntline Special with authentic eélan-he is perhaps the only regular Western type...
...Generation. For all his newfangled, semi-bullet-proof vest of spun glass and nylon, Author Russ was in a war that was part French-and-Indian ambush tactics and part World War I trench fighting. Long before Russ joined the outfit on New Year's Day 1953, the Korean war had become a stalemate of dug-in positions. Massive mortar and artillery barrages confined both sides to night patrols, reconnaissance, ambush or recovery of the dead. With a certain Byronesque recklessness, Russ volunteered for them all. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection for January, The Last Parallel...
Lonely Hearts. The tabloid Napoleon, who sometimes propped his hand in his vest, waged the war for circulation (goal: 1,000,000) with stunts and sensations. The Graphic gave toys to the poor in Central Park, filled Madison Square Garden with a "Lonely Hearts Ball." The lonely hearts project was dropped within a year, when a woman deposited a baby on Gauvreau's desk and asked what he proposed to do about it. It had happened after the ball, she said...
...thinning white hair trimmed, shampooed and carefully dried, Rockefeller handed Corbett $5 for the $2.50 job, donned his vest, jacket and topcoat and headed off to the next point on his morning's itinerary. "Goodbye, Mr. Rockefeller,"said the barber. "Goodbye, Mr. Corbett," said the man who is known to his friends and associates (but not to his face) as J.D.R...